DIRS Deactivated for Midwest Derecho
The FCC deactivated the disaster information reporting system for the 24 Iowa counties affected by the recent derecho, said a public notice Wednesday. The deactivation was at the request of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Coordinating Center for Communications…
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and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the PN said. The final report, also released Wednesday, said there were 21,570 cable and wireline subscribers without service, outages at 1.9 % of cellsites in those areas, and eight FM stations and one AM remain down.